On Tuesday, Djurgardens IF of Sweden’s top hockey league announced that seven players would not return for next season. One of those players is William Lagesson, a fourth-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers in the 2014 draft, who will come back to North America to play within the Oilers organization.

“Our loan agreement with William Lagesson, belonging to Edmonton, expires last April,” the release (via Google Translate) quotes GM Joakim Eriksson as saying. “Both Edmonton and William's ambition is to play in Edmonton next season and we wish William good luck.”

Lagesson’s return to this side of the Atlantic is positive news for the Oilers’ system. Whether it will be relevant at the NHL level in 2018-19 remains to be seen, but the idea isn’t as implausible as Lagesson’s under-the-radar status would make it seem.

It is easy to overlook Lagesson, for reasons that have little or nothing to do with playing ability.